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Select Board asks treasurer to locate trust‑fund documents after inquiries about cemetery wall repair
Summary
The Select Board and finance committee asked the treasurer/collector to inventory roughly a dozen small trust funds, identify authorizing documents and balances, and report back within 30 days so the town can determine whether any funds could be used for specific repairs.
During the April 15 meeting, the Town of Lakeville’s treasurer/collector told the Select Board that the town holds roughly a dozen trust accounts in varying amounts and that the department has not yet located the underlying trust documents for many of them.
The issue arose during a separate conversation about a damaged cemetery retaining wall and whether a municipal trust could be used to fund repairs. The treasurer/collector said she can list current balances in Munis and search town document retention but that the legal…
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